Button boot or shoe.



PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904.

H. 0. JENNEY.

BUTTON BOOT 0R SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28. 1904.

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Patented November 29, 1. be.

PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY (J. JENNEY, OF NEWV BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON BOOT OH SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,066, dated November29, 1904.

Application filed May 28,1904. Serial No. 210,228. (No modem 10 allw/mm, it may concern:

Be it known that l, HARRY U. JENNEY, a citizen of the United States,residingin New Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ButtonBoots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to that class of boots or shoes known as"button-boots or high button-shoes. In shoes of this character there hasbeen much complaint of the bunch or inner protuberance extending againstthe upper side of the foot and produced by the additional thicknessformed by the thickness of the lower ends of the button-piece,button-piece lining, stay, and quarter under the vamp-seam below theopening or lower end of the button-piece. At this point there areusually the following thicknesses, viz: the vamp, quarter, button-piece,stay, buttonpiece lining, and shoe-lining, besides the thicknessproduced by the seam of the vamp, while just below this point there aresimply the vamp and the shoe-lining.

It is the principal object of this invention to reduce this bunch orprotuberance by doing away at that point with the lower ends or edges ofthe button-piece, the stay, and the buttonpiece lining, so that the onlythickness at the point above mentioned consists of the vamp, thequarter, and the shoe lining, without injuring or making any radicalchange in the appearance of the shoe.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is aperspective View of a button boot or shoe embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a plan view of the quarter-piece which is provided with thebutton-piece. Fig, 3 is a similar view of the other quarterpiece. Fig. 4is a view of a small piece which lies between the adjacent edges of thequarter and button piece illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detailshowing a portion or the vamp broken out. Fig. 6 is asection taken online 6 6, Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents the vamp; Z) and. c, the two pieces constituting thequarter; (Z, the buttonpieee constituting an integral portion of thequarter-piece 7), and c the shoe-lining. The button-piece which isintegral with the quarter-piece Z)(thus doing away with a central seam)begins at its lower end at the point r and extends over the otherquarter -piece, said lower endthat is, the edge between r and --beingabove and substantiallyHush with the correspomling edge of the vamp aand being stitched at 7" to the quarter and being further secured tosaid quarter by the strengthening-stay /b. There is therefore no lappingof the button-piece and vamp, the adjacent edges being close together,as illustrated. The two parts I) and c of the quarter underlap the upperedge of the vamp and are stitched thereto at K7, and the inner adjacentedges of the portions 7) and c as said edges meet centrally under thevamp are stitched, cemented, or otherwise secured together at Z. (SeeFig. 6.) These edges are well illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, in whichthey are shown as being produced by means of the substantiallyhorizontal extension 0, which meets the edge I) of the downwardextension 6. The small piece or gore represented'in Fig. tand indicatedby the reference-letter t, Fig. 1, is stitched to the opposite sides ofthe out n, Fig. 2, for the purpose of spreading the button-piece intothe desired shape. This construction is not, however, new in thisinvention. By means of this construction and arrangement the onlythicknesses next the lower end of the button-piece consist of the vamp,the quarter, and the shoe-lining, the button-piece, button-piece lining,and stay not appearing at all at that point. The buttonpiece isprevented from starting 01' breaking away not only by the stitching f,but also by the strong stay-stitch it.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a button boot or shoe ot' the character described, the vamp; thequarter-piece 1) provided with the button-piece (Z, and formed at itslower end with the downward extension I) having the inwardly-facing edge5'; and the quarter-piece 0 provided at its lower end with theinwardly-facing extension 0,

said quarter-pieces underlapping and being stitched to the upper edge ofthe vamp and the inwardly-facing ends of the extensions 5 and 0 meetingcentrally under the vamp, and the lower end of the button-piece abuttingthe upper edge of the vamp and being stitched to the quarter-piece c.

2. In a button boot or shoe of the character described, the vamp; thequarter-piece 6 provided with the button-piece (Z, and formed at itslower end with the downward extension Z) having the inwardly-facing edge5; the quarter-piece 0 provided at its lower end with theinwardly-facing extension 0, said quarterpieces underlapping and beingstitched to the upper edge of the vamp and the inwardly-facing ends ofthe extensions 1/ and 0 meeting centrally under the vamp; and thestay-stitch lb extending from the button-piece to the quarter-piece 0,the lower end of the button-piece abutting the upper edge of the vampand being stitched to the quarter-piece 0.

in testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY C. JENNEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. VVILLIAMs, A. K. Hoon.

